Database Backups – Back to Basics
Remember When…
Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a...
2016-12-22
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Blog Posts
Quick Command Shells–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-12-22
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SSIS Custom Logging Levels
In my ongoing series on ETL best practices, I recently wrote about the importance of logging in extract-transform-load processes. For...
2016-12-22
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Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016 – A match made in heaven!
For all these years Windows Server 2016 is the Windows version I was waiting for, and this blog post will explain why...
2016-12-22
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Automating DBCC Page
Way back in 2006, Paul Randal documented DBCC PAGE on his Microsoft blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2006/06/10/625659.aspx. In his post, you will...
2016-12-21
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Data gateway confusion
Microsoft has created data gateways as a way that cloud products such as Power BI and Azure Machine Learning can...
2016-12-21
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Optimize For Unknown
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while. I was working with a friend and we came across an interesting problem....
2016-12-21 (first published: 2016-12-05)
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 30 – Linear Gauge)
In this module you will learn how to use the Linear Gauge Power BI Custom Visual. The Linear Gauge would...
2016-12-21
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Run Book, Run!!!
How many of you actually have a “Hit-by-the-Bus” handbook? What is that, you ask? It is a document that explains...
2016-12-21
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sp_helptext vs object_definition()
I’ve been using sp_helptext for years. Honestly I probably end up using it at least once a day. But I...
2016-12-21
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Blogs
The fundamental requirements of a reporting system
By ChrisJenkins
There are some fundamental boxes that your reporting system must tick. ✅ The figures...
Seeing the Bigger Picture: How A Monitoring Tool Changed My Approach to Estate Management
By Chris Yates
When it comes to managing complex database environments, having the right monitoring solution is...
A New Word: Foilsick
By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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The Last Good DBCC Run
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count the number of NULLs in a row
Hi everyone I have a SP that finds the average based on 3 tables. ...
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The Last Good DBCC Run
I want to check when DBCC CHECKDB was last run on my Baseball database. What code should I use?
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